Radio 477! review. Ukraine then and now: jazz, destruction and defiance.
In 1929, a group of avant-garde artists in Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine, put on a jazz musical revue called "Hello, This Is Radio 477!" celebrating the city's lone radio station, with music by 26-year-old rising composer Yuliy Meitus "The audiences loved Meitus's music, the wild jazz dances, the set and costumes. But...